This illustration shows a series of galaxies distributed throughout space, with many galaxies distributed…
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Ask Ethan: Is dark energy just leftover momentum from the Big Bang? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the…
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A new collider can teach us about the origin of matter | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
Although there are many novel proposals for new particle colliders, including in China, at…
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Ask Ethan: When do stars turn the most mass into energy? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | May, 2025
This Wolf–Rayet star is known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light-years away in…
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The importance of caring about the truth | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
The lab leak conspiracy theory, promoted here in 2021 by Sen. Rand Paul, vilifies…
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Ask Ethan: What right do we have to colonize other worlds? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
This illustration shows a human colony within a dome on an otherwise uninhabited planet.…
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Is our Universe fundamentally unstable, and will it decay? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
In a vacuum decay scenario, our Universe exists in a false minimum state, and…
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See NASA’s most important image in space telescope history | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
If you held a dime up from a distance of 160 feet (50 meters)…
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Ask Ethan: Couldn’t COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese Lab? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
The SARS virus (orange) has a crown-like structure, meaning that it’s part of the…
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How has cosmology changed from 2000 to 2025? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Apr, 2025
Many have already claimed that cosmology is in crisis, and that the Big Bang,…